Scott Williams Research Paper

A Mathematician, a student who is a expert or student of mathematics, isn’t a easy title to have. In order to become a mathematician there are many hours put into school work and many years in order to get their degrees, but a black mathematician is even harder to achieve. Vivienne Malone Mayes, a black mathematician who has faced segregation and discrimination in order to get where she was went through a deal and became the fifth African American to receive her Phd in mathematics. First thing to remember, her accomplishments were in the 1900’s where racism was still alive and well, through the differences she had with her classmates she still pulled through with many achievements such as being the first black to serve on the executive committee

Scott Mason, a teen from Massachusets was trapped on the 6,288 foot Mount Washington for three days. He faced many hardships, including a sprained ankle, river rapids, and being stranded in the wilderness. His story can be used as a lesson about the dangers of hiking solo. However, how did Scott even arrive at this dilemma? Scott, a former Boy Scout, knew Mount Washington like the back of his hand.

It was February 25th. It was the day that Sean Marsee took his last breath. Sean Marsee is a teen who had died recklessly because of his smoking. This teen track star was very successful. Sean had won 28 track medals in the 400 meter relay.

The Death of Laci Peterson On December 24, 2002, Laci Peterson was reported missing from her home in Modesto, California by her parents and husband. The Modesto police began their search for Laci Peterson before the standard forty-eight hour limit to file a missing person’s report because she was eight months pregnant. John Buehler, the lead detective on her case, claims there was no reason for her to be missing on Christmas Eve. The police went to the Peterson household and questioned her husband Scott.

David Russell Williams was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England on March 7, 1963 to parents Christine Nonie (née Chivers) and Cedric David Williams. As a boy his family immigrated to Chalk River, Ontario, where his father, a metallurgist, would be hired at Canada’s premier nuclear research laboratory. Williams saw the divorce and remarriage of his parents not long afterwards. His mother remarried to a man named Jerry Sovka. In the 1970s, they moved near the Scarborough Bluffs, overlooking Lake Ontario.

Walter Dean Myers won the Coretta Scott King award for African American author five times. Myers was originally named Walter Milton Myers but he adopted the middle name “Dean” to honor Florence and Herbert the parents that raised him after his mother passed away when he was 18 months and his father sent him to live with Florence and Herbert Dean. Walter Dean Myers was born in August 12, 1937 in Martinsburg, West Virginia and died July 1, 2014 in Manhattan, New York city, New York. When he was a child his life involved his neighborhood and church, the neighborhood protected him and the church him, and also had a speech impediment that made communicating very difficult for him.

James Farmer Jr. was born in Marshall, Texas on January 12th 1920. His Mother was a school teacher while his father, James Farmer Sr., was a Methodist minister and was among the first African American men in the entire state to earn a PhD. Farmer was accepted at the early age of 14, skipping grades to Wiley College which resided in his home town. In 1938, his intellectual talent would lead to his graduation and move to Howard University in Washington, DC, where he would go on to study religion. His master's thesis examined a unity of economics, religion, and race. During his time there, he joined a debate team and became an exceptional part of it.

William Wilcox put up one of his farms, of 254 acres, for sale in 1893. At the age of 65 and widowed he was cutting back on the strenuous effort required to keep all his properties maintained and productive. He would still farm (and a well known respected local farmer he was) on his main homestead on the shores of Horseshoe Lake. His home was nicely nestled by the creek that fed all the lakes from First, Second and Third Lakes through Blackstone, Crane and Little Blackstone until arriving at Georgian Bay. The thought of being one's own boss and the freedoms associated with it seemed to attract Philip.

Benjamin Mays, the youngest of eight children, born August 1, 1894 near Epworth, South Carolina was raised on a cotton farm and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bates College in Main. He served as a pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church from 1921-1923 in Atlanta, Georgia. Recruited by Morehouse President John Hope, Mays would join the faculty as a mathematics teacher and debate coach. He became the president Morehouse College in 1920 and launched a 27-year tenure that shepherded the institution into international prominence.

He is a member of the Zeta Chapter at Morris Brown College. I selected him because of his story. Umzae Hosea Williams was born to blind parents. On multiple occasions he was beaten and left for dead. Yet throughout all of these setbacks, he went to college, became a remarkable man of Phi

Hence, “Daniel Williams was born on January 18, 1856, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania” to a large, extended family (Biography.com). His father, Daniel Williams II was an advocate for African Americans rights. In fact, he worked with the Equal Rights League, a civil rights organization for blacks. In addition, Daniel's father inherited a barber shop from his father. The barber shop was the main income for Daniel’s large family.

W.E.B Du Bois and His Impact on Black America W.E.B Dubois was a man who believed and fought for a cause that changed and revolutionized how some people see racism today. Before Du bois started his civil rights activism he was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on February 23, 1868, and in 1884 Du Bois graduated as the valedictorian from his high school class. Soon after he graduated from high school he was accepted into Harvard University in 1888 as a junior and was the first African American to earn a PHD from Harvard University. Shortly after he received a bachelor of arts cum laude in 1890. Later in his life Du Bois began to fight vigorously for lesser status foundations and became an advocate for full and equal rights.

Texas’s first African American woman novelist was also a biographer, diarist, educator, publisher, and librarian. Lillian B. Horace was born on April 29, 1880 in Jefferson, Texas. Her parents were Thomas Armstead and Mary Ackard. The family moved to Fort Worth, Texas when Lillian was a young toddler. She would go on to receive her early and formal education, graduating from the historically black institution, I. M. Terrell High School.

He was the president of Oberlin College in the mid 1800’s. This college was the first of its kind to allow black and women students. The faculty and students of Oberlin were active

Originally born Arthur Lee Smith Jr., was born August 14, 1942 in Valdosta, Georgia. In 1987, Asante made academic history by establishing the first Ph.D. program in African-American studies at Temple University in Philadelphia,